Brief Background on Margaret Atwood
Born Margaret Eleanor Atwood to Carl Edmund and Margaret (Killam) Atwood, in Ottowa, Ontario, 1939.
Even when she was very young, Margaret enjoyed writing poetry, stories, comics and an unfinished story about an ant.
Margaret and her father in 1942
At a certain point when she was in elementary school, she abandoned the pursuit of becoming an author, but this was rekindled when she was in high school and studied Edgar Allen Poe, and at 16 decided to pursue a writing career.
Margaret went on to Victoria College, and while there her first volume of poetry was published called Double Persephone. She later went to attain her masters at Radcliffe College in Massachusetts. After that, she began her full time writing career. Her one book Survival attained much critisim and praise, which eventually caused her to leave the public light, but still continue to write. Her works soon began to include political and sexual abuse themes, and relationships between countries. In addition she has written many critical essays, poems, novels, and much more.
She is also an advocate for human rights, and pro-feminism.
Source: http://literature.proquestlearning.com/critRef/displayItemById.do?QueryType=reference&forAuthor=2561&BackTo=Author%20Page&ItemID=bio2561%20pqllit_ref_lib
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